Randori 乱取り is a training exercise that is practiced in many Japanese martial arts, including Aikido. The first character, 乱, means “disorder” or “chaos,” and 取り means “taking” or “capturing.” Together, the term randori can be interpreted as “taking control in chaos”. Randori is a training exercise where a practitioner faces multiple attackers in a dynamic and unpredictable setting. This is different from a pre-set series of attack and defense techniques such as kumite 組手 in Karate or kumijo 組杖 in Aikido, which are normally performed for demonstration purposes. Randori can be further divided into hitori gake 一人掛け (one-person attack), futari gake 二人掛け (two-person attack), sannin gake 三人掛け (three-person attack),…